Autism Observation Paper

Method
Participants
The participants interviewed for this research study were adults who either work with those who have autism or have a child with autism. Participants interviewed were selected by knowledge of people who have experience with autism. All of the participants were students currently attending UCCS or the researcher has had past experience with. All interviews were confidential and contained no identifying information. The participants of the interviews were 3 females and 2 males. Race demographics included 100% being white. All participants of the interviews were over the age of eighteen.
Instrumentation
Prior to each interview, a written consent form (see Appendix E) explaining the voluntariness and confidentiality of the
Interview notes were transcribed onto a coding table (see Appendix F) for analysis and to identify common themes among collected data. Four themes were identified, and within each theme recurring responses were established. Each interview was cross-referenced with recurring responses. Repeating response patterns were determined and evaluated for
All of the interviewees agreed that the social spectrum of autism is a major thing that is well-known along with difficulty of communication. A hundred percent of the answers given by the interviewees said that the social spectrum of autism can contain things such as difficulty with learning, verbal skills, non-verbal skills, brilliancy, body awareness, and difficulty with communication of their emotions and how to express them. Some of the interviewees had mentioned the movie Rain Man and that this is where information was retained on what autism is, and how the ‘huge spectrum” that autism contains was